According to the United Nations, today, 2nd May 2025 is World Tuna Day. This month (May) is also Animal month at The Addictive Sketcher Movement so drawing a tuna fit perfectly with both topics!
During my lunch pause, I took the opportunity to draw this Atlantic bluefin tuna. I am not sure about the type of tuna, because the Unsplash photo I used as a reference as the tag bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus), but also shark. I don’t know my tuna species but it seems likely. If you know, let me know in the comment or via my social media (Instagram, X/Twitter, Bluesky, or Cara). I also have a Facebook page, but I need to rethink it as I have previous old pages related to other craft I did and probably want to merge them if I can.
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This time, in addition to using my 2B Faber-Castell Jumbo 9000 pencil, I used a Derwent Graphic 7H pencil to sketch the outline of the drawing before using the 2B graphite pencil. I then use a blending stumps to merge and blend the graphite. Because I wanted to have some part darker, I also used my recently purchased 10B Faber-Castell graphite pencil. I actually bought the set of 3 graphite pencils: 10B, 12B and 14B when I want very dark black that can’t be achieved with my 8B (the highest of the Jumbo 9000). I finally used the Tombow mono eraser for couple of highlight, or a Faber-Castell dust free rubber to erase some initial sketch marks I wasn’t happy with. The drawing was done on this A5 200gr sketchbook, I really love spiraled bound and pre-perforated paper, when I finish to draw on both side I save them in my binder.
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